An Alpha lecturer at the College of Emotional Engineering. He and Bernard are friends because they find common ground in their discontent with the World State, but Helmholtz’s criticisms of the World State are more philosophical and intellectual than Bernard’s more petty complaints.

Brave New World- Lenina

A vaccination worker at the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre

She is an object of desire for Bernard Marx and John

she is unable to share Bernard’s disaffection or to comprehend John’s alternate system of values.

Brave New World- Mustapha Mond

The Resident World Controller of Western Europe, one of only ten World Controllers.

young scientist performing illicit research

When his work was discovered, he was given the choice of going into exile or training to become a World Controller. He chose to give up science, and now he censors scientific discoveries and exiles people for unorthodox beliefs

Brave New World-Soma

The drug soma is a symbol of the use of instant gratification to control the World State’s populace.

Brave New World- Ford, “My Ford,” “Year of Our Ford,

Henry Ford, the early twentieth-century industrialist and founder of the Ford Motor Company, wherever people in our own world would say Lord”

religion has been replaced by reverence for technology

Brave New World- Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, or Epsilon

Alphas: destined to become the leaders and thinkers of the World State.